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Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Nursing in 1989"


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TL;DR: Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.

48 citations


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TL;DR: Results indicated that, in comparison to prolonged hospitalization, home ventilator management is medically safe, with a significant reduction in overall cost, and interventions for nurses in the discharge preparation and follow-up care of ventilATOR-assisted children and their families are suggested.

34 citations


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TL;DR: Characteristics of families, specifically their adaptability, cohesion, and coping mechanisms during a child's intensive care hospitalization, indicate that the families were, as a whole, healthy in their levels of functioning.

29 citations


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TL;DR: Overall, the PCA group received less morphine than the traditional group; this study indicates that PCA is a valuable addition to pain management for the pediatric patient.

28 citations


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TL;DR: This is the book that many people in the world waiting for to publish, trauma nursing from resuscitation through rehabilitation, is published, and the book lovers are really curious to see how this book is actually.

28 citations


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TL;DR: Significant positive relationships were found between coping and marital satisfaction, coping and the quality of the relationship between husband and wife, and coping and attending a spina bifida support group.

26 citations


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TL;DR: Current understanding of the condition is outlined, the potential effect of colic on infant attachment; the later growth and development of the once-colicky child; the evidence that supporting and refuting commonly held beliefs, and areas of intervention are suggested.

25 citations


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TL;DR: The Personal Fable is a belief held by many adolescents telling them that they are special and unique, so much so that none of life's difficulties or problems will affect them regardless of their behavior.

25 citations


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TL;DR: It appears that psychological needs may compete and conflict with the need for adherence to illness regimens in adolescence, and factors that emerged as most important in adolescent compliance were self-esteem, social functioning, and perceived autonomy.

22 citations


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TL;DR: Whether use of decision criteria that refer to the child's behavior rather than a predetermined amount of food is possible for parents and likely to contribute to reduced vomiting and resistive behavior and increased dietary intake needs further study.

21 citations


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TL;DR: This article focuses on four of the most frequently used projective assessment techniques in pediatric research: the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the Child Apperceptions Test (CAT); the Rorschach; and Human Figure Drawings (HFDs).

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TL;DR: Methods are utilized in this article to judge a recently published scale for the measurement of chronically ill 7to loyear-old children’s perceptions of their illnesses and to determine the reading level of the instrument.

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TL;DR: A conceptual framework is presented that examines five factors affecting the rate of recovery and return to health for critically ill children in pediatric intensive care and will assist the nurse in recognizing which children are at greatest risk for setbacks and delays in recovery.


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TL;DR: A daily, purposive journal, directed specifically toward pertinent variables while remaining open-ended, is one data collection method that can offer valuable insights into the unique world view of children.

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TL;DR: If nurses are to effectively use pain contracts, they must understand how to develop and implement them in the clinical setting, and research can be designed to explore the use of such contracts for adolescents and staff.

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TL;DR: This article addresses historical support of the palmar sweat index as an indication of pain, the utility and appropriateness of this measure as used with children, and specific patterns and relationships to the pain experience.

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TL;DR: Clinicians need to be alert to the impact of temperament on the interpersonal milieu of VLBW children and their families.


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TL;DR: Stepwise multiple regression showed that hand ventilations and FiO2 levels significantly accounted for the variability in TcPO2 levels during CPT, and Pearson correlation analysis showed that there was a negative correlation betweenFiO2 and Tc PO2 and between the number of hand vents and TCPO2.

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TL;DR: The theory of reasoned action is used to predict the compliance behavior of 29 parents of children with epilespy and, contrary to the results predicted by the theory, parents' attitudes toward giving the medication correlated with a significant amount of variance in medicine-giving behavior beyond that accounted for by behavioral intention.

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TL;DR: The assessment necessary to determine readiness for decannulation, the preparation of the child and the family, and the variations in the actual methodology are discussed.

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TL;DR: This article presents an innovative resuscitation program designed to teach the cognitive and psychomotor skills.


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TL;DR: This study used meta-analysis methodology to examine a series of studies in maternal-infant attachment and the results of this quantitative analysis were compared with those of a classic qualitative analysis of the same subject.



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TL;DR: The role and unique contributions of the nurse in the early intervention setting is identified using Levine's conservation principles as a framework for assessment and intervention and a nursing care plan is developed for a 16-month-old, multiply-handicapped child.

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TL;DR: Steps are suggested to adapt research tools used with older children for use with younger children to help nurses work with preoperational age children.